Re: [APML] Sky-watcher

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

>If you are willing to use other (narrowband) filters you can get nice
>results; someone was posting on alt.binaries.pictures.astro some
>H-alpha photos taken with with the 120 f/5 and they were quite nice.

         For the money it is amazing as a visual scope, and you can do some 
really nice daytime photography with it, but to get some really nice, crisp 
star images, I think you have to stop it down a bit, and you'll have a 
small fortune tied up in filters by the time you are done.   Would not be 
my first choice for tech pan.  :)


>I don't know what he was using for a mount....

         ah yes, the three most important pieces of equipment when it comes 
to astro-photography are, the mount, the mount, and finally, the mount.
:)
         Seriously, that is the real killer, a decent mount.  Honestly, for 
piggy back shots, starting out new, it is almost impossible to beat a well 
made barn door or scotch mount.  Up from there, a lot of  the imported 
equipment, while fine visually, just doesn't hang in there when the going 
gets tough.  I mean, take the EQ6 mount.  I love em.  I sell em.  I love to 
sell them.  But if one more person tells me the EQ6 is a match for a 
Losmandy G11 I'm gonna scream bloody blue murder.  A lot of wishful 
thinking out there.
         You know, as a society, I think we are not so much more advanced 
than dark age alchemists who sought to turn lead into gold.   It is quite 
probally cheaper to buy gold in the first place than to waste all the time 
and resources messing around with lead.  But alas, part of our psyche 
always wants that something for nothing.  Or in this case, we want USA 
craftsmanship at Chinese prices.
:)
take care
joe


joe



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